purposiveness without purpose, n.Definitions

Purposiveness without purpose (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠aesthetics is the lawfulness of judgement in its freedom.

Purposiveness without purpose (n.) turns ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠us inward — never finding such an end outside us, we look for it within, in our moral vocation.

Purposiveness without purpose (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠design we can only make sense of by imagining a will behind it, while not placing its cause in any will.

Purposiveness without purpose (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠idealist aesthetics' creed, and it turns upside down what bourgeois art actually did: purposelessness for purposes set by the market.